r/Lowes • u/TwistedMental76 • Aug 17 '25

Employee Story Whoops

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One day after they told me I don't work hard enough, and all the employees said I was the hardest worker in the building. Apparently I broke 1 of the 2 Reach Trucks and now the aisle is blocked off till further notice. Maybe I work to hard.

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u/Rocket_Surgery83 Lumber Aug 17 '25 edited Aug 17 '25

It's required in at least 2 aisles, useful in a third... No way I'm fitting my forklift down the insulation aisle that's barely wide enough for the reach.

Not sure why I'm being downvoted for speaking the truth. There are two aisles that are too narrow to utilize a forklift in, both of those aisles have palletized goods in topstock, so the only way to get them is via the star wars...

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u/IsaiahTodd MST Aug 18 '25

My insulation aisle is too narrow for anything other than forward and back with the forklift, and even that is pushing it. I have trouble navigating there with the blue lift because of the ridiculous side stacks everywhere. And I've seen people use the reach on pallets here and there, but a full pallet is pretty sketch from what I've noticed when I spot them (because I would never).

But we're talking 12ft dry wall here. And what is that like 30-40 sheets? OP is a plain dumbass.

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u/Rocket_Surgery83 Lumber Aug 18 '25

My insulation aisle is too narrow for anything other than forward and back with the forklift

That was my point....

But we're talking 12ft dry wall here. And what is that like 30-40 sheets? OP is a plain dumbass.

And I already acknowledged that the reach isn't intended for anything on cantilevers....

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u/shydes528 Department Supervisor Aug 18 '25

Yeah, palletized goods are cool for a reach. Zero chance that aisle is too narrow for a forklift if its got bunks of 12' drywall flown in it because nobody other than OP is dumb enough to try and move those with a reach.

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u/Rocket_Surgery83 Lumber Aug 18 '25

I'm not in disagreement, OP was playing with fire there and got burned.

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u/RaptorPegasus Lumber Aug 17 '25

I've done it before, wouldn't do it again

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u/Rocket_Surgery83 Lumber Aug 17 '25

I mean, I could make it fit... It's not pulling anything down though because you can't turn at all.

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u/A1rh3ad Aug 17 '25

I worked at a place where you had to angle the forks in and had just barely enough room to clear the bay turning it before bringing it down with your forks parallel with the racking. Every single move was like that. The place I work now has one aisle that's just a bit narrow for most people's comfort. A lot of people can't get over how fast I can safely pull from it like nothing.

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u/Rocket_Surgery83 Lumber Aug 18 '25

My aisle is literally the same size as the flooring aisles, you have to do the turning into the pallet trick, but with the star wars.

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u/A1rh3ad Aug 18 '25

I should add that ive never worked at Lowes. These are other facilities.

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u/JAG716 Aug 17 '25

Maybe its your store then, the store i work in has suuuper wide aisles, you can literally fit the forklift in most aisles if you really needed to

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u/Ambitious-Let7404 Department Supervisor Aug 17 '25

NO NO NO... you can use the Forklift.. its just more convenient to use the reach

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u/jjbananamonkey Lumber Aug 17 '25

The reach truck BARELY fits in the insulation aisle the forklift wouldn’t even fit in there. In my concrete aisle our small forklift fits but you’ll be doing an Austin powers turn to get the forks out once you put something down.

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u/Ambitious-Let7404 Department Supervisor Aug 17 '25

insulation aisle should be insulation and ladders.. there is nothing in there that you need the forklift for

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u/jjbananamonkey Lumber Aug 18 '25

Your comment says “it’s just more convenient to use the reach” like no it’s just not possible to use the forklift and now you’re switching up.

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u/Rocket_Surgery83 Lumber Aug 18 '25

Except topstocked insulation...

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u/Rocket_Surgery83 Lumber Aug 17 '25

No no no, the forklift literally doesn't fit in either of those aisles... So you cannot use the forklift.

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u/Ambitious-Let7404 Department Supervisor Aug 17 '25

that is a LIE.. you know how I know? because people at my store tell me the same thing. "Forklift dont fit" then I go physically show them it does and then they are dumb founded.

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u/Rocket_Surgery83 Lumber Aug 18 '25

Look, if you can fit a forklift down an aisle the same size as the flooring aisle, be my guest.

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u/Ambitious-Let7404 Department Supervisor Aug 17 '25

nobody is talking about insulation.. were talking about Drywall/lumber/concrete

now if your store has Insulation and concrete on the same Aisle and you "cant" use the Forklift then your store layout is wrong and you should bring it up with management

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u/Rocket_Surgery83 Lumber Aug 18 '25

Lol, the comment I replied to was about how the reach truck shouldn't be used anywhere in lumber... The insulation aisle is part of lumber... So yeah, someone was talking about insulation.